John Hawthorne

Short description: English philosopher (born 1964)

For the Australian politician, see John Hawthorne (politician). For the English archaeologist, see John G. Hawthorne.

John Hawthorne

FBA

Born|

John Patrick Hawthorne

(1964-05-25) 25 May 1964 (age 58)

Birmingham, England

Other names| John O'Leary-Hawthorne
Academic background
Alma mater|

* University of Manchester
* Syracuse University

Thesis| Public Meaning and Mental Content[2][1] (1990)
Doctoral advisor| Jonathan Bennett[1]
Influences|

* William Alston
* Jonathan Bennett
* David Lewis
* Timothy Williamson

Academic work
Discipline| Philosophy
Sub-discipline|

* Epistemology
* metaphysics
* philosophy of language

School or tradition| Analytic philosophy
Institutions|

* University of New South Wales
* Arizona State University
* Syracuse University
* Rutgers University
* Magdalen College, Oxford
* University of Southern California
* Australian Catholic University

Doctoral students| Amia Srinivasan

John Patrick Hawthorne[2] FBA (born 1964) is an English philosopher, currently serving as Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne,[3] and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California.[4] He is recognized as a leading contemporary contributor to metaphysics and epistemology.[5]

## Contents

* 1 Early life and career
* 2 Philosophical work
* 3 Works
* 3.1 Books
* 3.2 Edited books
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Early life and career

Hawthorne was born on 25 May 1964 in Birmingham, England.[6] He earned his PhD from Syracuse University, where he studied with William Alston and Jonathan Bennett. From 2006 to 2015, he was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He has also taught at the University of New South Wales, Arizona State University, Syracuse University, Rutgers University, and Princeton University.

## Philosophical work

Hawthorne's 2006 collection Metaphysical Essays offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation, which one reviewer called "essential reading for anyone currently engaged in analytic metaphysics".[7]

In his book Knowledge and Lotteries, Hawthorne defends a view in epistemology according to which the presence of knowledge is dependent on the subject's interests (he calls this view "Subject-Sensitive Invariantism").[8] Unlike contextualism, Hawthorne's view does not require that the meaning of the word "know" changes from one context of ascription to another. His view is thus a variety of invariantism. However, whether a subject has knowledge depends to a surprising extent on features of the subject's context, including practical concerns. The American philosopher Jason Stanley holds a similar view.[9]

Hawthorne has also written on philosophy of language and philosophical logic, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, and on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

## Works

### Books

* The Bounds of Possibility: Puzzles of Modal Variation, (with Cian Dorr and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)
* Narrow Content (with Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, Oxford University Press, 2018)
* The Reference Book (with David Manley, Oxford University Press, 2012)
* Relativism and Monadic Truth (with Herman Cappelen, Oxford University Press 2010)
* Metaphysical Essays (Oxford University Press, 2006)
* Knowledge and Lotteries (Oxford University Press, 2004)
* Substance and Individuation in Leibniz (with J. A. Cover, Cambridge University Press 2003)
* The Grammar of Meaning: Normativity and Semantic Discourse (with Mark Norris Lance, Cambridge University Press, 1997)

### Edited books

* Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology (edited with Matthew A. Benton and Dani Rabinowitz, Oxford University Press, 2018)
* Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics (edited with Theodore Sider and Dean Zimmerman, Blackwell, 2007)
* Perceptual Experience (edited with Tamar Gendler, Oxford University Press, 2006)
* Conceivability and Possibility (edited with Tamar Gendler, Oxford University Press, 2002)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Doctoral Dissertations, 1990–91". The Review of Metaphysics 45 (1): 198. 1991. ISSN 2154-1302.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hawthorne, John Patrick (1990). Public Meaning and Mental Content (PhD dissertation). Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University. OCLC 78441217.
3. ↑ "Dianoia Institute of Philosophy". https://www.acu.edu.au/research/our-research-institutes/dianoia-institute-of-philosophy.
4. ↑ "Faculty Profile > School of Philosophy > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences". https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/phil/faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1047479.
5. ↑ The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics: Hardback: Michael J. Loux. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press. 2003-08-28. ISBN 978-0-19-825024-1. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198250241.do. Retrieved 2013-08-26.
6. ↑ Hawthorne, John (2018). "Curriculum Vitae". Los Angeles: University of Southern California. https://dornsife.usc.edu/tools/mytools/PersonnelInfoSystem/DOC/Faculty/PHIL/vita_1047479.pdf.
7. ↑ "Metaphysical Essays". https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/25198-metaphysical-essays/.
8. ↑ McGrath, Matthew (6 August 2004). "Knowledge and Lotteries". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/23836-knowledge-and-lotteries/.
9. ↑ https://www.yoaavisaacs.com/uploads/6/9/2/0/69204575/ms_for_fine-tuning_fine-tuning.pdf

## External links

* University of Southern California Webpage
* Works by or about John Hawthorne in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
* Google Scholar Page

Academic offices

Preceded by
Dorothy Edgington |  Waynflete Professor of
Metaphysical Philosophy
2006–2015  | Succeeded by
Ofra Magidor

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Philosophy of language

Index of language articles

Philosophers|

* Plato (Cratylus)
* Gorgias
* Confucius
* Xunzi
* Aristotle
* Stoics
* Pyrrhonists
* Scholasticism
* Ibn Rushd
* Ibn Khaldun
* Thomas Hobbes
* Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
* Johann Herder
* Ludwig Noiré
* Wilhelm von Humboldt
* Fritz Mauthner
* Paul Ricœur
* Ferdinand de Saussure
* Gottlob Frege
* Franz Boas
* Paul Tillich
* Edward Sapir
* Leonard Bloomfield
* Zhuangzi
* Henri Bergson
* Lev Vygotsky
* Ludwig Wittgenstein
* Philosophical Investigations
* Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
* Bertrand Russell
* Rudolf Carnap
* Jacques Derrida
* Of Grammatology
* Limited Inc
* Benjamin Lee Whorf
* Gustav Bergmann
* J. L. Austin
* Noam Chomsky
* Hans-Georg Gadamer
* Saul Kripke
* A. J. Ayer
* G. E. M. Anscombe
* Jaakko Hintikka
* Michael Dummett
* Donald Davidson
* Roger Gibson
* Paul Grice
* Gilbert Ryle
* P. F. Strawson
* Willard Van Orman Quine
* Hilary Putnam
* David Lewis
* John Searle
* Joxe Azurmendi
* Scott Soames
* Stephen Yablo
* John Hawthorne
* Stephen Neale
* Paul Watzlawick

Theories|

* Causal theory of reference
* Contrast theory of meaning
* Contrastivism
* Conventionalism
* Cratylism
* Deconstruction
* Descriptivism
* Direct reference theory
* Dramatism
* Expressivism
* Linguistic determinism
* Mediated reference theory
* Nominalism
* Non-cognitivism
* Phallogocentrism
* Relevance theory
* Semantic externalism
* Semantic holism
* Structuralism
* Supposition theory
* Symbiosism
* Theological noncognitivism
* Theory of descriptions (Definite description)
* Unilalianism
* Verification theory

Concepts|

* Ambiguity
* Cant
* Linguistic relativity
* Meaning
* Language
* Truth-bearer
* Proposition
* Use–mention distinction
* Concept
* Categories
* Set
* Class
* Family resemblance
* Intension
* Logical form
* Metalanguage
* Mental representation
* Presupposition
* Principle of compositionality
* Property
* Sign
* Sense and reference
* Speech act
* Symbol
* Entity
* Sentence
* Statement
* more...

Related articles|

* Analytic philosophy
* Philosophy of information
* Philosophical logic
* Linguistics
* Pragmatics
* Rhetoric
* Semantics
* Formal semantics
* Semiotics

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